Description
Summary * Over 5+ years of experience as Splunk Developer/admin, Information Technology field with strong emphasis in Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW) associated projects. * Performed activities including requirement analysis, design and implementations of various client server based applications using Splunk 5.x, Splunk 6.x. * Expert in creating Reports, Pivots, Alerts, Dashboards, advance Splunk search, Visualization, log parsing in Splunk enterprise including external table lookups. * Expert in developing customized Shell scripts in order to install, manage, configure multiple instances of Splunk forwarders, indexers, search heads, deployment servers. * Knowledge in various search commands like stats, chart, time chart, transaction, strptime, strftime, eval, where, xyseries, difference between event stats and stats and table etc. * Extensive experience in writing SQL Queries, Dynamic-queries, sub-queries, Complex Stored Procedures, Triggers, User-defined Functions, Views and Cursors. * Knowledge in optimizing searches for better Performance, Search Time vs. Index Time Field Extraction and understanding of configuration files, precedence and working Props.conf, transforms.conf, inputs.conf, outputs.conf setting up a forwarder monitor stanza in inputs.conf. * Good understanding of Network Firewalls, Load-balancers, LDAP and complex network design. * Expertise in customizing Splunk for Monitoring, Application Management and Security as per customer requirements and industry best practice. * Knowledge in various Architecture components within Splunk (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts, Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing, License model. * Experience in field Extraction, Using Ifx, Rex Command and Regex in configuration files. * Familiar with Window Servers, Red Hat Linux Enterprise Servers, Solaris and IBM AIX servers. * Expert in managing many of the proof-of-concept dashboards for IT operations and services owners which are used to monitor application and server health and on investigating HTTP issues using tools like Fiddler, HTTP Analyzer etc. * Knowledge in various types of charts, Alert setting, app creation, user and role access permissions. Creating and managing app, Create user, role, Permissions to knowledge objects. * Expertise with Splunk UI/GUI development and operations roles and styling, text customizations for different components of the Splunk platform using HTML, JavaScript and CSS * Knowledge of software development life-cycle (SDLC) process. Followed Agile, scrum and story maps for dev tracking and experience in Operational Intelligence using Splunk. * Excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills, Troubleshooting, problem determination of HTTP/System/Network related problems including Monitoring, Capacity Planning and Maintenance by providing 24X7 support on call for all mission critical applications.